10-3-0005c  -  Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo


Case InformationMotions and HearingsMembers and PartiesIssuesOrdersStatus HistoryDeadlinesCase LogCase Notes
Date Filed: 02/08/2010 Status: Closed
 

Reason:
Poulsbo Ordinance 2009-14, amending Poulsbo's Comprehensive Plan


Closing Comments:
The Board finds and concludes the enactment of Ordinance 2009-14 by the City of Poulsbo complies with the goals and requirements of the GMA as denoted in the Petitioners' issue statements.

Orders

Date Issued Document Title
2/16/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Notice of Hearing and Consolidation
3/17/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Prehearing Order
4/26/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Order Extending Briefing Schedule and Denying Motion to Strike (re: Supplementation of the Record)
5/11/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Order on Motions to Supplement the Record
5/11/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Order on Dispositive Motions - City of Poulsbo's Motion to Dismiss
8/9/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Final Decision and Order
9/3/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Order Denying Petitioners' Motion to Strike City's Answer to Motion for Reconsideration
9/3/2010 Wold, et al v. City of Poulsbo, Order Denying Reconsideration

Motions

Motion Date Filed Decision Decision Date
City of Poulsbo's Motions to Dismiss 4/2/2010 Partial 5/11/2010
Petitioners' Motion to Supplement the Record 4/2/2010
City of Poulsbo’s Objections and Motion to Strike Portions of the Reply Briefs of Petitioners Wold, Cellucci and Lee 6/23/2010
Petitioners' Motion for Reconsideration 8/19/10 8/19/2010 Denied 9/3/2010
Petitioners' Motion to Strike City's Answer to Motion for Reconsideration 9/1/2010 Denied 9/3/2010

Hearing Dates

Event Type Location Hearing Date Start Time End Time  
HOM   Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln St.  6/23/2010  10:00 AM  1:00 PM   

Case Members

Member Name Member Role
William Roehl Member
Margaret Pageler Member
Dave Earling Presiding Officer

Case Parties

Party Type Party Name Represents
Petitioner  Janet Wold  Pro Se 
Petitioner  Carlotta Cellucci  Pro Se 
Petitioner  Molly Chamberlin Lee  Pro Se 
Attorney  James E. Haney  Respondent City of Poulsbo 
Respondent  City of Poulsbo   
Respondent  Barry A. Berezowsky   

Case Issues

Number Issue Type Issue
1  11. Citizen Participation and Coordination  Violate 36.70A.020(11) by not encouraging direct involvement of citicens in planning process (such as advisory or stakeholder groups) and failing to ensure coordination between communities and jurisdictions such as Naval Bas Kitsap [Wold Issue 1] 
10  Forest Lands  Violate .020(8), .040, .210 by failing to adopt DRs to protect NR lands [Lee 4.6, 4.23, in part] 
11  Forest Lands  Violate .020(6) .040, .050, .060, .140(a)-(b), .165, .177 regarding Forest Land w/in City limits and UGA which Dept. of Natural Resources has categorized as Desgianted Forestry but are not mapped/identified as such by CP [Lee 4.5, 4.8, 4.23, in part] 
12  Agricultural Lands  Violate .070(1) by not protectiing Ag and Forest lands and .177(1)-(4) by not conserving Ag lands and encouragiing non-Ag uses [Wold 7 and 14] 
13  Forest Lands  Violate .060 and .170 by failing to have DRs requiring notice to title [Lee 4.7 and 4.9] 
14  Various Goals   Violate .020(1), .020(2) .020(3) .020(4) by adopting low/irregular housing densisties and sprawl in City and artificially inflating acreage needed for UGA; and not encourage urban growth in areas with facilities [Wold 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D] 
15  UGA Sizing - OFM Population/Density  Part A - Violate .110(1), .110(2), .110(3) by failing to characterize UGA by urban growth, using unrealistically low building densities creatiing  
15  UGA Sizing - OFM Population/Density  Part B - Violate .110(3) by omitting sequential order for staging growth in implementing various GMA Goals [Lee 4.25] 
16  Open Space/Greenbelts  Violate .020(9), .110(2), .160 and 365-195-335 by not including greenbelt/open space corridors within & between UGAs that are connected, including wildlife habitat & travel corridors AND .070(1) by not protecting areas for recreation/open space corridor [Wold 1G, 2C, 7, 12; Lee 4.3]  
17  Land Capacity Analysis  Violate .040 by reporting and implementing an inconsistent analysis of population allocated to city/county from most recent 10 year OFM in the CP, SEIS, Buildland Lands Analysis, growth allocations and Cap Facilities Plan [Wold 5] 
18  Land Capacity Analysis  Violate .130(1)(a) , .130(1)(c)-(d), .130(2)(a)-(b), .130(3)(a)-(b) by not appropriately reviewing the population, housing densities, extent to which urban growth haws located w/in City, the unincorporated portion s of UGA, and the County, when documents show inconsistent between actual growth and allocated growth [Wold 10]  
19  Land Capacity Analysis  Violate .020(1), .110(2), .115 by manipulating methodology for calculating projected densities & population allocations and ignoring historic growth patterns that have exceeded projected populations density goals across all housing densities [Lee 4.28] 
2  Process  Violation of 36.70A.130(2)(a) and .140 by not providing appropriate opportunity for public comment w/out establishing & broadly disseminating a public participation program providing early/continous participation and, if such a program exists, following it consistently [Wold Issue 1i] 
20  UGA Sizing - OFM Population/Density  Violate .110(3) . 070(3)(e), .070(3) .020(1) .020(2), .020(6), .020(8), .020(9), .020(12) by annexing/converstiing undeveloped lands w/ little or no infrastructure ahead of infrastructure-rich land when city is not financially capable of providiing services 
21  External - CP/DR to Other Plan  Violate .210(1) by altering its land use powers based on directon from county and CPPs when, for example, buidling densities used by city where based on county direction rather than city planning densities, documents, DRs, and on-the-ground facts/actions [Wold 16] 
22  Reasonable Measures  Violate .215(3)(b)-(c) by not reviewing housing needs and density ranges to determine the amount of land needed for the 20-year planning period when both CP and SEWIS are based on hypothetical housing density w/ no correlation to each other, on the ground facts, records, or realistic planning projections for past decade [Wold 20] 
23  Reasonable Measures  Vioalte .215(1)(a), .215(2)(a) by failing to collect data on urban/rural land uses, development, critical areas, and cap facilities necessary to determine quantity/type of land suitable for development and failing to determine urban densities achieved w/in UGA by comparing actual vs. assumptions [Wold 17, 18] 
24  Reasonable Measures  Violate .215 by enforcing only min. densities and not planning for/mandating max densities when, for example, the city determined that CP and SEIS where inconsistent in regards to housing densities/population but took action which exacerbates inconsistencies rather than reduce [Wold 19, Lee 4.26] 
25  Amendments - Regular/Emergency  Violate .500(3)(a) by using grants by not preparing integrated environmental analysis, therefore failing to address environmental impacts and consequents as required by .500(3)(b), .500(3)(d) [Wold 21, 22] 
26  SEPA Procedures  Violate 43.21C.010, .020, .030, .331 by acting arbitrary [Lee 4.31] 
27  Internal - CP to CP  Violate .070 Preamble/Mandatory Elements which requires consistent plans 
28  External - CP/DR to Other Plan  Violate .070 when plans are not consistent, City's CP to Kitsap CPPs 
29  Internal - CP to CP  Violate .070(3) by failing to havng a Cap Facilities Plan that is coordinated w/ financial plan and .070(3), .070(8) when, for example, Parks & Recreation element is not consistent/coordindated w/ Cap Facilities Plan [Wold 8, Lee 4.18] 
3  Notice  Violation of 36.70A.035 by providing only difficult to find legal notices in newspaper and on clipboard at Post Office and Library, not notifying interested public/private groups and individuals who requested [Wold Issue 4] 
30  Internal - CP to DR  Violate .172, .070, when CAO is incosnsitent w/ Comp Plan Element and LCA methodologies and Kitsap CPPs, Buildable Lands, Sub-Area Plans, etc [Wold 15, 1G; Lee 4.23, 4.29, 4.3, 4.4] 
31  Internal - CP to CP  Violate .010 uncoordinated growth when, failed to be guided by CP Tables and SEIS [Lee 4.27] 
32  6. Property Rights  Violate .020(6) and .370 by desiganted areas w/in UGA & City as open sapce - eminent domain after an indeterminate span of time [Lee 4.1] 
33  6. Property Rights  Violate .150, .160, .165 by avoiding substantive due process - retroactive legislation & takings of designated open space to critical area buffers  
34  Water  Part A - violated .020(12), .070(3) .040(4), .070(6), .120 - by not demonstrating sufficeint water supply/capacity/rights to meet forecasted population projects and failing to reassess Lan dUse element because of this shortfall [Lee 4.10, .414, 4.23] 
34  Sewer  Part B - violated .020(12), .070(3), .070(4), 070(6), .120 by failing to account for converson of existing homes from private wells/septic to City services [Lee 4.11, 4.23] 
34  Level of Service  Part C - Violate .020(12), .070(3), .070(4), 070(6), .120 by failing to have specific plans to bring defficient road/infrastructure up to LOS minimum and discussion of addt'l funds/plans to address LOS deficiences [Lee 4.17] 
34  Concurrency  Part D - violate .020(12) .070(3), .070(4), 070(6), .120 by failing to ensure adequate public faciltiies/services w/out decrease in LOS and not performing activities in conformity w/ capital budget decisions when, for example, City has not had adequate funding to maintan existing roads or newly annexed roads [Wold 1J and 9] 
35  Financing Plan  Violate .070(3) .070(6) .070(8) by failing to accurately and adequately identify fudning sources in 2009 6-year CIP and arbiitrarily choosing ID funding sources in 2010 Cap Facilities Plan [Wold 8, Lee 4.12, 4.13, 4.16, 4.18] 
36  Various Goals   Violate .020(1), .020(2), .020(12), .070(3) in lighf the adequacy requirements of CP Policies [Lee 4.15] 
37  Amendments - 7 year review  Violate .130(4)(a) because City did not complete its CP Update on time 
38  5. Economic Development  Violate .020(5) by adopting a CP/DR thatprovides excessively large industrial/commercial development areas and low-density residential sprawl which leads to empty businesses in downtown area as well as in Bremerton [Wold 1E] 
4  Interjurisdictional - Military Installations  Violation of 36.70A.530 by failing to notify and/or seek recommendation from Naval Base Kitsap since base is 0.7 miles from city limits [Wold Issue 23]  
5  Protection of Water Supplies  Violation of.020(9), .020(10), and .070(1) by not reviewing flooding and stormwater run-off and failing to protect ground water, aquifer recharge, water quality, and provide corrective actions to mitigate/clenase discharges to waters of Puget Sound 
6  8. Natural Resources  Violation of .020(8) when CP encourages low-density housing and industrial/commercial sprawl that will narm natural resource industries, for example, Puget Sound fishing and shellfish Harvest [Wold 1F] 
7  Fish & Wildlife Habitat  Violation of .020(9), .020(10), .172(1) by not giving special consideration to anadromous fish & wildlife and considering BAS when adopting DRs [Wold Issues, in part 1H and 13] 
8  Fish & Wildlife Habitat  Violate .070, .172, .020(9) by failing to designate/protect FWHCA and their connectivity and having inconsistent documents given that CAO provides for FWHCA protection yet neither CAO nor CP identify these areas w/in City or UGA - leaving staff/developers to identify the areas w/out the benefit of BAS [Wold 15 and 1G, in part] 
9  Development Regulations  Violation of .060(6), .020(9), .020(10) by designating open space w/in critical area buffers and amending DRs to meet the needs of development adjacent to open spaces that exist in place of critical area buffers [Lee 4.30, 4.4, 4.23, in part] 

Status History

Status Date
Closed   8/10/2010
FDO Pending   2/11/2010

Deadlines

Trigger Description Days Current Deadline Status Extension
Date Filed   Notice of Hearing and Preliminary Schedule   10     Open    
Date Filed   Deadline for Receipt of Index   30     Open    
Date Filed   Prehearing Conference   31     Open    
Conference Date   Prehearing Order   7     Open    
Date Filed   Additions to Index   44     Open    
Date Filed   Dispositive Motions Due   54     Open    
Date Filed   Motions to Supplement   59     Open    
Date Filed   Response to Disp. Motions   64     Open    
Date Filed   Response to Motions to Supplement   69     Open    
Date Filed   Petitioner's Opening Brief   99     Open    
Date Filed   Responsive Brief   120     Open    
Date Filed   Reply Briefs   127     Open    
Date Filed   Hearing on Merits   135     Open    
Date Filed   Final Decision   180     Open    
Motion Filing   Response to Motion   10     Open    
Motion Filing   Order on Motion   20     Extended   9/8/2010
Date Filed   Order on Dispositive Motion   74     Open    
Date Filed   Order on Motion to Supplement   79     Open    

Case Logs

Date Filed Log Type Description Filed By Pages Exhibits
2/8/2010 Pleading   Petition for Review - Wold   Wold      
2/8/2010 Pleading   Petition for Review - Lee   Lee      
2/16/2010 Order   Notice of Hearing and Consolidation        
2/23/2010 Pleading   Board Memo - Consolidation of Issues   Board      
3/17/2010 Order   Prehearing Order        
4/2/2010 Motion   City of Poulsbo's Motions to Dismiss   James Haney      
4/2/2010 Motion   Petitioners' Motion to Supplement the Record   Wold, et al      
4/26/2010 Order   Order Extending Briefing Schedule and Denying Motion to Strike (Re: Supplementation of the Record)        
5/3/2010 Order   Order on Revised Dates for Board Order on Motions and Briefing Schedule        
5/11/2010 Order   Order on Motions to Supplement the Record        
5/11/2010 Order   Order on Dispositive Motions - City of Poulsbo's Motion to Dismiss        
6/15/2010 Order   Agenda for Hearing on the Merits        
6/23/2010 Motion   City of Poulsbo’s Objections and Motion to Strike Portions of the Reply Briefs of Petitioners Wold, Cellucci and Lee        
8/9/2010 Order   Final Decision and Order        
8/19/2010 Motion   Petitioners' Motion for Reconsideration 8/19/10   Wold, Cellucci, Lee      
9/1/2010 Motion   Petitioners' Motion to Strike City's Answer to Motion for Reconsideration   Wold; Cellucci; Lee      
9/3/2010 Order   Order Denying Reconsideration        
9/3/2010 Order   Order Denying Petitioners' Motion to Strike City's Answer to Motion for Reconsideration        

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